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Kind of crazy to me that anyone would block an entire TLD. This timeline is bizarre. How often and with what services do you find zip blocked? Genuinely curious
by pockybum522 5mo ago
Kind of crazy to me that anyone would block an entire TLD. This timeline is bizarre. How often and with what services do you find zip blocked? Genuinely curious
- yourusername 5mo agoMy employer blocks it on our work computers. Looking around it seems like this is commonly done because one of the main uses of the .zip tld is to spread malware by faking links to zip files using "/" look alike characters and other URLs that look like download links to zip files.
- yathern 5mo agohttps://luke.zip/posts/zip-defense/ https://luke.zip/posts/zip-defense/ I get asked this a lot, so here's my defense!
- AuthAuth 5mo agoI had little opinion on .zip but this convinced me to go figure out how to block .zip tld. Why would someone risk all those attack vectors when there is so much available on the many other tlds. I could see myself getting caught by many of them.
- ErroneousBosh 5mo agoWell by that token we should probably also block the .com TLD since that is actually an executable file suffix.
- zzrrt 5mo agoModern 64-bit Windows doesn't execute .com files, unless the user installs an emulator or something.
- neuroticnews25 5mo agoIt does execute PE files with .com extension.
- NooneAtAll3 5mo agothis timeline is bizarre because someone allowed TLD with common filetype name be created ideally it should've been killed the moment it was created to become a lesson for everyone else